TO THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



NAT. ORD., Composite. 

 1092 Oxyura Chrysanfhemoides. A showy, free-flowering plant, with beautiful fringed 



flowers ; golden-yellow ; from California $0.05 



ENGLISH PANSIES. PRIZE VARIETIES. 



(HEARTSEASE OR VIOLA TRICOLOR). NAT. ORD., Violacea. 



The Pansy, or Heartsease, is a general favorite and old acquaintance with every one who 

 has any thing to do with a flower-garden. It begins to open its modest but lively flowers as 

 soon as the snow clears off in the spring, and continues to enliven the garden till snow 

 comes again. The flowers are in the greatest perfection in May and June : the burning sun 

 of summer is unfavorable for their greatest beauty, but in autumn they are fine again. The 

 Pansy is properly a biennial, but can be perpetuated by cuttings or division of the roots. 

 Seeds sown in August, in the open borders, will come up readily in a few weeks. The seeds 

 should be slightly covered with fine soil, if covered at all, as half the seeds sown rot in the 

 ground from being covered too deep. As soon as they expand the second set of leaves, they 

 should be planted out into beds ; if planted in the spring, they should not be allowed to 

 flower until late in the fall ; the buds should be picked off dunng the summer, which will 

 make the plants bushy and compact. They require to be covered during the winter with 

 evergreen boughs or a cold frame. The following seeds were selected by some of the most 

 celebrated European florists from prize collections, and we can recommend them as first- 

 class in every respect. 



1093 Pansy, Good Mixed 05 



1094 Fine Mixed 10 



1095 Extra Mixed. Saved from named flowers, from English prize collection; the 



finest in habit of plant, size, form, and substance of flower. Superb . . . .50 



